Development – Page 1448 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – March 30, 2008

Miscellaneous

Agile Coaching: The Daily Stand-Up Meeting (Jeffrey Palermo)
SharedView is Very Cool (Chris Johnson)
Using RSS for System Status (Michael Janke)
The Roots of Best Practices (Christopher Bennage)
Towards Bug-Free Code (Patrick Smacchia)
Concurrancy-Oriented Code Reviews (Joe Duffy)

.NET

Simple Way to Convert IEnumerable<Entity> to List<Entity> and Sorting Lists the .NET 3.5 Way (Derik Whittaker)
Another Code Release – Preview Handlers for XP (Tim Heuer)
How to Grayout an Image in .NET (Dan Rigsby)
Custom Aggregations in LINQ (K. Scott Allen)
Patterns and Practices WCF Security Guidance Now Available (Hosam Kamel)
A Simple Closure to Handle Try/Catch Around Transactions (Ray Houston)

Silverlight/WPF

DLR Pad: Xaml + Ruby/Python (Rob Relyea)
Developing a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF – Stock DataModel Sample (Eran Kampf)

SQL Server

How to Use COALESCE and NULLIF to Prevent Updating Columns When a Parameter IS NULL or a Default Value (Denis Gobo)
SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 2 (Jason Follas)

Visual Studio

UPDATE: New Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper Release (MS Public Sector Team)
IronPython Studio Integrated Shell Setup Released on CodePlex (Quan To)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 28, 2008 and March 29, 2008 and March 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2008 – #239 and March 30, 2008 – #240 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for March 28, 2008 and March 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Link Listing – March 28, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
Links Today (2008-03-30) (Matt Hinze)

Book of the Day

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SQL Server Series): Edward Melomed,Irina Gorbach,Alexander Berger,Py Bateman: Books

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Dew Drop – March 28, 2008

Miscellaneous

I {entity} Unicode (Jeff Atwood) – Gotta order one of those bumper stickers.
Workflow Software: I’m Calling the Bluff (Leon Bambrick)
Mike Swanson: MIX08 Show-Off Winners (Rob Relyea)
Automation FTW (Sergio Pereira) – Some good hints on automating daily development-related tasks.
Hanselminutes Podcast 105 – Rocky Lhotka on Data Access Mania, LINQ and CSLA .NET (Scott Hanselman)
Windows Search 4.0 Preview for Windows Vista (MS Downloads)
How Microsoft Works (Jeffrey Snover)
Getting Ready for Windows Live Wave 3 (Chris)
BgShell (Background Shell) (Lee Holmes)

.NET

IteratorStream (Greg Young)
LINQ to SQL Issue with DateTime Fields and LINQ to SQL Limitation with Abstract Base Classes (Derik Whittaker)
Real Ultimate Power : Dependency Injection with Ninject (Ryan Lanciaux)
FormatWith – String.Format Extension Method (James Newton-King)
Stored Procedure Mapping (Noam Ben-Ami) – Some ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools info.
Async Operations in WCF: IAsyncResult Model (Server-Side) (Dan Rigsby)
ADO.NET Entity Framework Performance Comparison (Brian Dawson)
A Better Way to Extract Data From DateTime (Amit)

Silverlight/WPF

More Calculator (Scott McCraw)
Live Messenger – Login Screen UI (Jose Fajardo)

Web Development

Interesting 3rd Party Controls and Demo Applications for ASP.NET and Silverlight (Dan Wahlin)
New Features in the Next BlogEngine.NET (Mads Kristensen)

Visual Studio

XML Tools in Visual Studio 2008 (Stan Kitsis)
More Specs Available for “Rosario” – Feedback Opportunity (Anthony Borton)
VSCT PowerToy Released (VSX Team)
3 Ways to Run NUnit From Visual Studio (Shahar Abramovich)

SharePoint

Using TypeMock.NET to Abstract SharePoint with Mocks (Adam Buenz)

Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET (Scott Guthrie)
Visual Studio Links #14 (Darren Stokes)
LINKBLOG for March 27, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (3/27/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Links Listing – March 27, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #61 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Software Testing (2nd Edition): Ron Patton: Books

Technorati: daily links, .net development, silverlight, wpf, linq, powershell, sharepoint

Dew Drop – March 27

Silverlight/WPF

WPF Diagram Designer – Part 4 (Sukram)
Get Paid For Streaming With Silverlight? (Scott)
A Silverlight Calculator (Scott McCraw)

.NET

Introduction to ADO.NET Data Services (Part 3: Reading and Manipulating Results in a .NET Consumer Application) (Greg Galipeau)
.NET Framework 3.5 Distribution Size (Rick Strahl)
Moq’s MockBehavior (Aaron Jensen)
The Weekly Source Code 22 – C# and VB .NET Libraries to Digg, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Live Services, Google and other Web 2.0 APIs (Scott Hanselman)
C# HTML Table Builder (Trev)
NDepend – Static Analysis on Steroids (David Mohundro)
How To: Use the Group Clause in LINQ (Corey Roth)

Web Development

Using jQuery to Consume ASP.NET JSON Web Services (Dave Ward)
ASP.NET MVC: Goodbye SmartBag, Hellow ViewDataExtensions (Jeffrey Palermo)
Kigg – Upgraded to MIX08 ASP.NET MVC Release (Kazi Manzur)
SubSonic BlogProvider for BlogEngine.net (Luke Nathan Foust)
Timeline .NET (Rob Chartier) – Nice-looking timeline web control
Using Custom BasePage Class in ASP.NET (Satheesh Babu)

Visual Studio

Finding Shelve/Unshelve in Visual Studio 2008 (Charles Sterling)

Miscellaneous

ZipInstaller Lets You Install Windows Apps Without an Installer (Brad Linder)
Photoshop Express Enters Public Beta (Cristian)

Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2008 – #237 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: March 26, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Weekly SOA Crumbs #12 (Dilip Krishnan)
LINKBLOG for March 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (3/26/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #60 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Brad Abrams: Books

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